Country:China

Director:Zhang Yimou

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Summary:

China, Later Tang Dynasty, 10th Century. The Empress and Crown Prince Wan, her stepson, have an illicit liaison. Feeling trapped, Prince Wan dreams of escaping the palace with his secret love Chan, the Imperial Doctor's daughter. Prince Jai, the faithful son, grows worried over the Empress's health and her obsession with golden chrysanthemums. Could she be headed down an ominous path? When the Emperor senses a looming threat, he relocates the doctor's family from the Palace to a remote area. While they are en route, mysterious assassins attack them. Who is behind this brutal rebellion?

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Country:China

Director:James T. Hong

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Summary:

James T. Hong twice tells the story of Unit 731, a Japanese laboratory in the Chinese town of Harbin, where biological weapons were developed during the Japanese occupation. The structure and cutting however make it clear that every story has more than one side. This is a painstaking study of truth and political manipulation. To say that San Francisco–based artist James T. Hong is a provocateur is to reduce him to a single defiant gesture. His moving image works are a sump-hole of chilling irony in which neo-fascist pronouncements vie for primacy with proto-liberal anxieties.

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